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· THE CHINA MAIL,^ MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1059. -
ENGLAND EXPECTS
BY JAK
GROWING DISCONTENT AMONG PEASANT MASSES BECAUSE
OF BAD LIVING CONDITIONS, INEFFICIENCY AND GRAFT
MAO TIDIES
UP THE
COMMUNES
RE
EPORTS coming out of Communist China indicate that a new mass movement has been launched within the context of the communes system.
Mr Mao Tse-tung is apparently devoting his
TRUSCS,"
===BY
DERMOT WEST
personal attention to this new movement as it condition of the cadres and the introduction in December last year coincided with
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his relinquishment of the ceremonial office as head features of the dying up cama of the Chinese state.
The new movement. Mr Moo thinks olderently, euphemistically called "Tidying and never being one for paying up the Crammunes is expected much attention to Moscow when to achieve its bjectives by it does not suit his purpose, he April
is out to prove the Russian Jeaders wrong.
1a explaining the need for this new campaign. Mr Liu Shur- yuan, The secretary of the Klangsu Provincial Commitice of the Chinese Communist Party,
id:
"In the majority of people's eciamunes, after the framework was built, there had been so time to attend to the tidying up of the communes systematically and to solve the many new problems which have ap- peared after the organisation of For this reason the communes. there is need to develop the movement of tidying up of the commithes, that is to say, for taking the Inllative to solve the new contradictions."
Base needed
Bungling
bumper harvest
Last year's and imprecedented leap in steel production seen to indicate that the communau syston can be made to serve the purpose for which it as designed. However, the gains have not been achieved without hardship.
Mr Maois mindful that it was
dissatisfaction the
of The kulaks that forced Russian
to "Make a step back- Lenin wards" with the New Economie Policy and he does not want to
be forced into a similar retreat by the Chinese peasants.
Therefore he knows that the rigours of communal life, often Shulcted unecarily by the The contradictions" refer bunglings of party endees, must to the growing rumble of dis content from the Chinese peasant massex caused by neglect and
of living conditions, sabotage, bureaucracy. ineficiency corruption in tile communes system.
The success or failure of the tidying up campaign may well deelde the fate of Mr Mao's am- bitious project to marshal the manpower resources of China for rapid industrialisation. will certainly enhance or detract from his prestige and position leading Communist ng the
thinker in the world,
It
berused
Consequently the tidying up Campalan is launched to correct major shortcomings during the
slack
winter costuparatively season in order to lay the ground for the next great leap forward,
For this purpose inspce tion teams numbering lens of thousands have been or ganized ati over the country. They now touring the vart fand, from Inner Mon- golla to Shanni, from Kiangsu the to Elonant, to tidy up
arr
communes.
Therefore one of the main
paign Is the "universal and penetrating development of Scialist education,
were poor, quite a number of mess halls served nothing but Pweet potatous meal after meal, to the commune members' great
dissatisfaction,"
And there are other problems
→ and Communist too.
Now this massive indoctrina- tion programine can help solve some of the major problems in the communes was explained by the Peking People's Daily in an article on communa) mess halls, the source of a great deal of discontent.
According to the paper, when the mess hells were set up, most people eschewed working in the communal kitchens be ceuse they considered such work to be dirty and without future.
The wicked
Cumbersome
A Peking People's Dully re- port on the communes in Shansi Province said:
reserves
"Sonic endres....had con- cented output #gures, And zather spent public lavishly. Some did not actively assign all the manpower needed for tasks taken up by the com- muncs under unified manage- ment. Production order was Ittle confusel, and there were instances of idling, waste, and low work efficiency, All this affected the consolidation of the communes and the development of production."
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The leading cadres in the communes went along with A New China News Agency the iden and Thought that report on the Chootu commune
only ft for in Szechwan Province said; such Jobs were landfords, rich peasants, counter-
and "other "The directing cadres of the revolutionaries
The result commune were swamped by wicked elements." was that many of the jobs as cumbersome daily routines and cooks and
kitchen help were were unable to devote their at led by such people.
tention to the general polley of the commune or to solve impor- "It is precisely because of tant problems for the cadres at
of the mess hall such negligence of the political lower levels, constituents
the other hand, the staff that cases of landlords, rich
counter-revolus cadres at lower levels talled to und peasants
the financial lunartes dropping poison into size up correctly food occurred one after another, standing of the commune. They with many commune members felt that their poisoned," the newspaper sald, become much
The
article was substantiated by a report of the Rural Work Department of the Naupang District Committee in Hunsu Province.
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NO LOVE FOR JOHNNIE: Chapter Two
When
a man is 42
and suddenly breaks
Just in the darkness.
This is Chapter Two of the novel that MP WILFRED FIENBURGH finished just before his death a year ago. It tells how John Roderick Byrne, Labour MP for Marshfield, retained his seat in the General Election, but was bitter with a senso of defeat. Ho had been sure of a Ministerial post in the new Socialist Government, but the Prime Minister had passed him over. While stranded in Doncaster after a Labour rally, Byrne drank two whiskies and went to a music-hall... T was quite the best out again suddenly and she was
music-hall show he had ever seen. The comedian was a riot, a bit smutty but funny. And with what charm shoulder, and precision the chorus girls danced. How pretty they were, how young and vital.
A girl tripped in front of the
smiling footlights,
Strip-tease
Then on they came brightly and she was caught in another pose, leuning forward this time, the orbs of her breasts pendant. C, off Pose. Breasts, bullocks, thighs, arched back, smooth
lang slim lega and
the vital part of her always
hidden. by the turn of her body,
Down come the red velvet
curtain. Down came the safety Dovertisement for the Berkeley Fish-and-Chip Bar. Wakentelu Strett. Fried fish every day.
He walked to the bar and
drink. He way ordered trembling a Hile. Forty-two and fascinated by a body in a
loose...
'I'm afraid I tidied the flat this morning,' anid Mary, looking out of the window, avoiding him.
full music-hall in a provincial town "I don't know,” he said, "I'm -
commune had wealthier than before and they could spend money more ilberally. In! so sweetly beneath her wide the picture, hat, gloved hands doing, they often accused commune of placing too many
daintily holding a restrictions on their spending.
flowing skirt. "In some cases, the com- mune members became The report said: the rather careless with the pro- establishment of mess halls, a petty of the commune. Also, in The communes system has
small number of cadres were the use of manpower, because Ideologially lethargic and lost of the adoption of the cultiva already incurred the criticism of such Communist stalwarts o
their class vigilance, so that a tion area system, an individual Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- According to the Peking small number
Impure production team had no au- chev and Soviet Deputy Premier Prople's Daily, "The various elements inAltrated the mess Thority to use manpower ac-
there, cording to its own need. As Anastas Mikoyan. They feel work teams, in their effort to get halls, created trouble thint It is too advanced a form to the bollen, "of-thin.dise instigating the relations between resull, many edd-jobs-worn-left of organisation for China and conced that the various prob the cadres and the mess undene. While in some cases that "It cannot "sutreed wididit Tems existing were all closely making wasteful use of grain, members had nothing to do, in strong Industrial base, connected with the ideologiest, and resorted to all kinds of base other cases tasks were not methods to sabotage the thess carried out because of the lack hails."
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But not all the deficieneles of the mess kalis can be traced to wicked elements." Many are
due just neglect.
to Inefficiency and
Com- For example, another munist report on mess halts in Hosan xaid:
Question mark
or
It is as yet too early to know whether the tidying up cam- paign will be 4 success fallure. If it succeeds, the com- mune will probably remain that absolute majority of basic form of social organisa- the mess halls did not have tion in China for many more proper premises of their years to come.
"The
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There
On the
Its not the
peasant level, will mean a greater simplest device to keep the rice success and vegetables
warm,
and regard for the basic amenities therefore the commune members in fe, even if such amenities. had to eat cold rice all the time, only run along the lines of eight hours of sleep a day and four "As most of the food were hours for meals and leisure or made of sweet potatoes, as the having a bottle of boiled water management and adjustment to take to the fields.
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"What do you think, if they send us Me. Burgess we send them Dr. Zhivago ?”
She danced to the left and she danced to the right, then she stopped in centre stage and slowly peeled off a long white glove,
-tumultuously
Their basement flat at Swies excited by a restless. I feel bottled up. I Cottage was bleakly silent when chco of a strip-tense, Forty- want to get away from home." Byrno returned from his two and never been kissed.
Alice stirred her tea, "It's wasted trip to Earnicy", But time you were setting up on there was something different,
something your own."
in the flat had changed, something he was un- able to define until he went into the kitchen to make a pot of coffee.
Twenty years before, he and Alice were standing at the end of a moorland road.
Alice would not let him hold
was
Proposal
Then he noticed that the Het the
kitchen was tidy.
or
She wanted him to propose to her hand. He moved to our her end he did not want to pro- Shc Jutted-key-Angers and sido dal raised rough pose the stained intacte underneath the cofice removed her hat, tossing it heather so, she could walic com- littered with bigaretto ash and percolator and walked back into-
crispy bits of batter which had the hall. unguldly to a hand and urm fortably on the narrow path.
The telephone-table was cicar" that appear to TOUT THE_Hematekohandatamaskinfallon from the ploter at sk of the curtala.
suddenly restless and and chips, On the modr It Was she going to stug? Byrne hungry to feel her smallness would have been possible. caffet, circular, brochure
Invitation card upon it. wondered.
clace to him. But he did not
"Well," Then her hand slipped to the know how to set about it. They what is it to be?
said Alice tartly. He looked into the sliting-
side of her dress, tugged at a
You said room. The pile of pamphlets, did not go in for that sort of zig-fastener, ond
courting. that for days past had teetered dress, thlug. The
He had no experience, Courting to my way of thinking, on the verge of collapse on the which had been moulded to her did not know the first moves. breasts, sagged and came awaḥ, Strip-tease. Byrue chuckled. He was watching his first strip-tease. At the age of 42, In a music-hall in Doncaster, he was watching strip-tease.
A shock
we yourself
were
ends in getting wed." Is that cosy chair, had been stacked in why we're courting, or ure you a vacant space on the bookshelt. Just after a bit of kiss and cuddict"
Johnnie was standing in the middle of the kitchen alpping his black coffee when Mary from the flat above came down the staircase which was common to the two flats.
It was brutally crude, He did Clumsily he reached out to not wond kiss and cuddle, with her. She jumped with surprise is undertones of furtive moul The dress fell down in folds and they were caught off inds in the back alley-ways of and she stepped out of it, long, bolanee and fell by the path.
"Hello," he smiled. He wayed the district, and stift-fingered long legs, high heels, slik stock-
"You're daft" Allée snapped, gropings for a touch of breast or his coffee-cup towards the tidy ings, Arm white flesh under- pulling herself away and push thigh the corner of a feld, neath her black suspenders, firming her skirt down over her
sink. "Do you recognise this white flesh moulded by her knees in the some movement. He wanted the warmth of place?" brassicte
Poses
being loved, He wanted her to "What arc you doing? be ardent and responsive. Behave yourself,"
But that would come ntter He was surly. "We're sup marriage. posed to be courting," he said. "Yes, Allee," he said, "Lot's
There's courting and court- get married." She pirouetted and paraded, ing," said Allee tight-lipped "1
The local papers carried a leaned forward to show the know what goes on with some photograph of them and a short deep valley between her breasts, of them. I hear it all at the report of the wedding: smiled, skopered and turned mill, Filthy things. But not me. ugain.
Byrne swallowed, I'll play none of them games SUNDAY BCHOOL TEACHERS sneaked a glance at the audi- and you might as well know enco. Expressionless.
once and for all." Но looked quickly back to the stage. Her hand was now loosening the strap of her bras ziere. She leaned forward, pulled quickly at the strap. The stage lights went out. Dama tho Watch Committee. Damn the prudery of the
DIARRY
All the way' home on the "Mr John Byrne and Miss tramcar they were silent, When Alice Singleton were married on they came to the top nearest Saturday at the Westbrook Read Both their streat, they went to a fish- Congregational Chapel. and-chip shop and sat in the Mr. Byrne and the now Mrs bock room.
Byrne have served the Con- "Alice," Johnnly said, "I'm gregational Chapel for many leaving the chapel."
Tears in the capacity of Sunday British.
She looked up,
shocked. School teachers. THO fights went on again. "Whatever fort"
"Mr. Byrne has also been She way wanding on, a dais at :.."Because I don't think I a leading light in the Young the back of the stage, Sharply means anything any more," said Men's Bible Class, Unfortunately defined in the spotlights, naked, Johnnle., 7m going to take Mr Byrne will soon have to but for the long black stockings, politics a bit more seriously, relinquish some of the respons hoking a pose looking luft off It's politics not. religion wo billios he has' undertaken on the stage.
He drank it, all in Justly, the for the council to have a so behalf of the Chapel in view of the increasing heavy lond he has small hadowed dimples in her Alice shrugged. "You've never recently underinken as Assistant back, the rounded curve of bertalked like this before. What's Secretary of the -Divisional stomach. Then the lights went got. Into you?”.
Labour Party."!
Alice leaves
Mary leaned against the door, aslik dressing gown pulled tightly around "her, and Byrne noticed that her figure was still and fluid beneath the gown. Sha wore feather mules on her feat and a necklace dipped low into her bosom. She is quite pretty, ho thought,
Mary nodded. Although`sha was leaning idly against the door she seemed tense and nervous. "I'm afraid I did it," she said. "What?"
died the fat this inorn- ing. She looked, out of tho kitchen window, avoiding him,"
Why on earth
Mary did not answer. "It was very sweet of you, Mary, but tell me why should you suddenly descend from above and clear out the stable?"! “Johnnie,” she said,: "I'm ter- ribly sorry, but (0) Alleo--ahe's AATT TOMORROW?" The search for love begina